Trending Religious Movements in Japan this month
The 100 most-viewed religious movements this month on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Happy Science.
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8,349
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Happy Science
global new religious movement founded in Japan by Ryuho Okawa
758
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Unification Church
South Korean new religious movement
596
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3
Tenrikyo
Japanese new religion of Shinto origin
488
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4
haibutsu kishaku
anti-Buddhist movement during the Meiji period in Japan
327
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5
Sukyo Mahikari
Japanese organization
279
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6
Shinnyo-en
Buddhist religion founded in Japan in 1936
272
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7
Pana Wave
Japanese new religious group
253
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8
Oomoto
religion founded in 1892 in Japan
238
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9
Shinji Shumeikai
Japanese new religion
236
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10
Konkokyo
religion of Japanese origin originating in Shinbutsu-shūgō beliefs
233
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11
Peoples Temple
defunct new religious movement founded in 1955
230
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12
Catharism
Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe
203
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13
Reiha no Hikari
Japanese new religion
202
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14
Yōkōshi Tomonokai
Japanese new religion
199
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15
皇祖皇太神宮天津教
154
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16
Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan
Japanese religious organization
136
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17
Ōyamanezunomikoto Shinji Kyōkai
Japanese new religion
133
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18
Honmichi
Japanese new religion
130
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19
Nenbutsushu Sampozan Muryojuji Temple
124
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20
誠成公倫
123
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21
Jōdo Shinshū Shinrankai
Buddhist religious corporation in Toyama, Japan.
115
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22
Agon Shu
Japanese new religion
112
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23
Ruri Kyōkai
110
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24
Pharisees
ancient Jewish sect
109
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25
Hamas
Palestinian Islamist political and military organization
104
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26
GLA
Japanese religious organization
104
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27
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
104
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28
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
101
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29
Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christian movement
98
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30
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
96
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31
Heaven's Gate
American UFO religion, whose members committed mass suicide in 1997
81
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32
Kurozumikyō
Japanese new religion largely derived from Shinto roots
79
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33
mappō thought
eschatological movement in Buddhism which holds that the Mappō age has already begun and that existing Buddhist teachings are ineffective
74
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34
Haredi Judaism
strictest stream of the Orthodox Judaism faith
69
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35
Baháʼí Faith
monotheistic religion revealed by Bahāʾullāh
62
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36
spiritualism
19th century religious movement based on the belief that one can communicate with the spirits of the dead
49
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37
Mahikari
Japanese new religious movement founded in 1959
48
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38
Sufism
body of mystical practice within Islam
47
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39
Chino Shōhō
Japanese new religious group
46
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40
Honbushin
Tenrikyo-derived Japanese new religion
45
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41
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
44
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42
Non-church movement
Japanese Christian denomination (1901-)
42
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43
Ennokyo
Japanese new religion
41
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44
The Church of Almighty God
Chinese new religious movement
40
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45
Nation of Islam
Black nationalist African-American new religious movement
39
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46
Providence
Christian religious movement founded by Jung Myung Seok
37
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views
47
Order of the Solar Temple
French cult and secret society
37
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48
Muslim Brotherhood
global Islamic organization that serves as the primary reference for many Islamic groups
36
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49
Jiu
36
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50
Wahhabism
Sunni Islamic revivalist and fundamentalist movement
35
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51
Hasidism
religious subgroup of modern Judaism
35
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52
Ananaikyo
Japanese new religion
35
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53
Raelism
UFO religion founded in 1974
35
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54
Waldensians
mediaval Christian movement
33
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55
Misogikyō
Shinto sect
33
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56
modern paganism
group of contemporary religious movements based on ancient European and Middle Eastern religions
32
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57
Nenpoushinkyou
Japanese Buddhism-based new religion
32
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58
The Family International
Christian new religious movement founded by David Berg in 1968 in the United States
31
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59
liberation theology
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
28
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60
Shingaku
Japanese religious movement
27
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61
liberal Christianity
school of Christian theology that emphasizes the importance of reason and experience over doctrinal authority
26
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62
Christian Science
American religious movement (1866-)
25
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63
Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
South Korean new religious movement
22
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64
Tensokōkyō
Japanese new religion based in Nagoya
22
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65
Second Great Awakening
Protestant religious revival in the early 19th-century United States
22
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66
chingo kokka
21
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67
Monophysitism
Christological doctrine which emphasizes the one holy, divine aspect and nature of Christ
21
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68
Hanafism
one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence
21
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69
chengming nianfo
20
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70
Yiguandao
Chinese salvationist religious sect that emerged from the Xiantiandao
20
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71
Christian Zionism
political and religious ideology
20
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72
Zealotry
religious-political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism
19
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73
Salafism
Sunni Islamic reformist movement
19
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74
First Great Awakening
Christian revivals in Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in the 1730s–1740s
19
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75
Nichirenism
nationalistic interpretation of the teachings of Nichiren
18
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76
Shintō Tenkōkyo
Japanese new religion based in Tabuse, Yamaguchi
18
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77
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
17
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78
Neotantra
Western religious movements incorporating elements of Hindu and Buddhist tantra; often includes sexual elements
17
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79
Shinreikyo
Japanese new religion founded in 1947
17
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80
Sadducees
Jewish sect or group active in Judea from 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE
16
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81
Charismatic Movement
trend of historically mainstream congregations adopting beliefs and practices similar to Pentecostalism.
16
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82
Orthodox Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movement, and the formal one in Israel
15
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83
Covenanters
Scottish religious movement
15
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84
Christian fundamentalism
British and American protestant movement opposed to modernist theology
15
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85
Skoptsy
Russian Christian movement which practiced castration and mastectomy
15
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86
Sabbateans
followers of Sabbatai Zevi
15
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87
Maruyamakyō
Japanese religion derived from Shinto
15
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88
Christian naturism
movement which believes that God never intended for people to be ashamed of their bodies
15
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89
Kodosan Buddhist Fellowship
Japanese new religion
14
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90
Uchūshinkyō Kōmyōjin
Japanese new religion
14
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91
Rabbinic Judaism
mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE
14
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92
Messianic Judaism
religious movement
13
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93
Hòa Hảo
religion based on Buddhism, founded in Hòa Hảo village, Vietnam in 1939 by Huỳnh Phú Sổ
13
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94
Mahikari Seihō no Kai
Japanese new religion
13
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95
Reform Judaism
denomination of Judaism
13
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96
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
12
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97
Shafi'i
school of Islamic jurisprudence
12
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98
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
12
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99
Kishinkai
Japanese new religious movement founded in 1953, focused around the Lotus Sutra and ancestor veneration
12
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100
God Worshipping Society
religious and political movement founded by Hong Xiuquan
11
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